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I could think that an argument could be made that a staff is a very poor 'caster weapon'. Quarterstaff, in the real world, is an extremely fast, athletic, and effective fighting style that can equal many other weapons in single combat. Casters might be better off sticking to single short sword...

I find it amusing how much epic questing we do outside of the game. "What's that you say! 15 oz. Ox Blood Red elephant hide leather codpieces! In Delaware! Fire up the war-station-wagon, we're going on a road trip!"

That's important, cause otherwise someone else will kill them an take their stuff before you can. : |

I would suggest appealing to your fellow players before going to E-bay, simply on the grounds that you might get a chance to look at what you're buying before you actually put down the money. To totally contradict myself, Think Geek is selling Aluminum rivetted maille shirts at a very low...

You know... I make armor. In fact, if you gave me a wad of cash I might even make you armor. It's much easier than running down the cow and tanning it yourself!

As you point out, this is as much a combat style issue as an issue with the reps. Time for more anecdotes. I got started in sword fighting with 2" wood closet rods, oak bokken, broom handles, and whatever else my friends and I cooked up. We were highschool kids, we had no rule system, no...

After the end of the world there isn't going to be anyone left except for Larper's, SCAdians, boy scouts, and crazy mountain militia men. It's going to be a very strange world, even without the zombies.

Hey folks. Here's my story. I just got back from Anime Detour, a Twin Cities Anime Convention. Since I didn't want to go in my civvies I put on my leather armor, strapped a boffer to my side, and went in. In the two hours that I was wearing my armor about a half dozen people asked me about...

The allowance for wands does call into questions some of the safety regs. Basically, Bob goes right, Ted goes left, they both go down and Bob falls on Ted's wand. Bob's got either a bad bruise or a puncture wound. Compared to a reasonably well made commercial latex weapon? *shrug* In my...

To the best of my knowledge LARP games, including those Belegarth psychos, are consistently very safe. This is all annecdotal of course, but I'm going to offer it up anyway, because I don't have numbers. With a football team, you've got 30-60 or however many kids they put on those things...

For folks wanting to make their own bows, but who don't want to mess with shaping hot PVC. As I understand it the 'normal' way of making a bow is to use a heat source, like a heat gun, an oven, or a pencil torch, to heat the PVC until it's soft, bend it into shape, and let it cool while holding...

I'm trying to understand how my character would think of death, war, and ressurection, rather than thinking up things for my character to actually do in game. But, hey, maybe I'll be playing a wizard some day who does come up with some spell that will give him phenomenal cosmic power... in three...

The funny hat is absolutely mandatory. Now there is an interesting Quandry. Orthagg, Barbarous Seaman of the North, is involved in a naval battle far from home in the lands of the Carnviorous Seal Men of Xogg. During a battle he is thrown over the side by one of the Seal Men and messily...

I have to say, I'm surprised to hear that there are a lot of high level characters kicking around. I've played a few RPGs where a high level inversely correlates with your chances of surviving the next ten minutes. And of course there is the ongoing quest for a truly ridiculous crowning moment...

Say the fighting 179th Dwarven Rhino Riders are encircled on all sides by slavering, bloodthirsty Unseemly Troll Haberdashers. The Rhino Riders are doomed, there is no hope that any of them will survive the battle! They fight bravely, to the last Dwarf and Rhino, then an hour later, having...

*Is makin Javelins* I gived you a javelin, but you eated it! *poke Poke* Why is you not movin?

Does Alliance suffer from a lot of gold creep? Ultima Online used to have that problem. If gold was too scarce everyone was broke, which wasn't any fun, but usually there was so much gold it was hardly worth anything.

You must do it! For it is fun!

I haven't been subject to the F*ck rule in a while. But then, it takes me ten minutes to wind my way through the path to the door, which is five feet away as the raven flies. Maybe I should just try stepping on the soldering iron...

Mmm Mana potion. Tiny, possibly radioactive, utterly disgusting bottles of pure heaven. I just wish they weren't so pricey. My room is currently filled to a depth of two feet in pipe insulation, papier mache, duct tape, half assembled electric lanterns, trap bits, various toxic resins and...